Najach Rustum is a nursery school aide in her Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj, about halfway between Beersheba and Sde Boker. Until recently, she had difficulty finding reliable care for her two-year-old daughter, the youngest of her six children.
“I was constantly switching caregivers, and sometimes I had to take her with me. If she was sick, I didn’t go to work,” Rustum says. “I always wanted a nice daycare where I could take her.”
